...reversed for thee : Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning, to be wise ; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. ^ ieo See nations, slowly wise, and meanly just, — To buried merit raise the tardy bust. If...

...extensive view •* — ' Survey mankind, from China to Peru. LOU i. * From ORTON'S Life of DoddrUge. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. Line i„9. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale....

...the modern and objectionable sense of the word. His friend was henceforth his evil genius. But see what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail, wrote Johnson. We have said that to the world, except to the very wise, the author lost his power;...

...in Jobnson's life introduced a new reading into a familiar line in The Vanily of Human Wltlies— " what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the Jail." In the first edition garret was the word used. 2. Encumbers: cumber comes in the long run from...

...:— ' Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from Letters to be wise, Then mark what ills, the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol.' Patron was substituted for the original word 'garret.' The only literary men who did not starve were...

...they were added after his visit to England. Dr. Johnson epigrammatized Spenser's indictment into " There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail," but I think it loses in pathos more than it gains in point. Queen Elizabeth bestowed on him...

...• ' Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from Letters to be wise, Then mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the gaol.' Patron was substituted for the original word 'garret.' The only literary men who did not starve were...

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...Even the patron of Johnson's time, has now ceased to make presents in return for fulsome dedications. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail. (39) There is then among us a craving for wealth, as indeed there is more or less at all times...

...griel or danger free, Nor think the doom of man reversed for thee; D eign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise;...life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail." In one noble historic passage he has fairly rivalled the genius of Juvenal, that in which the...